Trash

Rapozo has served on the county council for 18 years, following a career with the Kauaʻi Police Department and the Hawaiʻi National Guard. He is now running for mayor. His opponent, Bernard Carvalho, did not respond to HPR's interview requests.

The island’s Kekaha Landfill is expected to reach capacity in 2030, and the search for a new landfill site is underway. A proposed county bill would not allow new landfills within a six-mile radius of one that has accepted waste in the last 30 years.

Roger Babcock, director of the Honolulu Department of Environmental Services, explains a new composting program the city will be rolling out.

A survey of Hawaiʻi businesses revealed that tariffs and trade policies have affected 86% of local businesses in the last year.

Oʻahu's two landfills are both approaching capacity. But for certain kinds of waste, recycling is making some progress. We get more on that story from Alexander Lugo of Pacific Business News.

Gov. Josh Green said he has put in a formal request for a presidential major disaster declaration so that the federal government will be able to cost-share with the state and county on recovery efforts.

Department of Environmental Services Director Roger Babcock explains the newest food composting program rolling out across Oʻahu in a handful of pilot communities.

House Bill 644 would prohibit the sale, distribution or use of single-use plastic ware that contains perfluoroalkyl or polyfluoroalkyl — also known as PFAS.

A measure going through the state Legislature this year seeks to strengthen last year’s ban on building landfills too close to water sources — but now the bill could undo that ban altogether.

Sustainable Coastlines Hawaiʻi is celebrating 15 years as an organization. Over the past decade and a half, the group has cleaned up over 750,000 pounds of trash and reached more than 50,000 volunteers.